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What does this computer offer that cheap minipcs from the likes of Berlink and Minisforum don't offer already?
by rewmie 3y ago
What does this computer offer that cheap minipcs from the likes of Berlink and Minisforum don't offer already?
- ranguna 3y agoYou can fit it in your pocket. But you can do this with MeLE and LattePanda ones as well. So I'm guessing the advantage here is just a bit of price competition.
- rewmie 3y ago> So I'm guessing the advantage here is just a bit of price competition. The minipcs from Beelink and Minisforum are slightly dlarger than a Raspberry Pi, but they ship with AMD Ryzen and Intel i5 8th and 11th generation, and sell for around 300-400€. I don't think this competes on price too.
- aborsy 3y agoIt offers two external SATA ports for storage, and external PCIe x4 slot. It can be a cheap ZFS receive box for backups. It could actually run TrueNAS, with 3.5” HDDs (although we will have to check if it could power them up too, through a Y cable).